Modesty died when clothes were born.

When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.